Well ANZ's engineering hourly cost is $90hr and QF's is $140 hr so of cause we'll be doing more of QF engineering work, simple economics boys.
The AN aircraft that went to NZ for maintenance often came back with numerous open defects. I'm hearing the same from friends at QF & DJ.
DJ are currently training AAES (Ansett engineering) LAME's on the 737NG for overflow work rather than send it to NZ. QF sent a high level delegation down from SYD to look at having 737/767 maintenance carried out at AAES. 6 months ago they didn't want to touch us because of the administration. Something made them change their mind.
I have no doubt that some work will stray across the tasman to sweeten the deal but bean counters only seem to look at short term gains and not the long term pain. It would certainly be interesting to see a 12 month reliability study between a product overhauled in Oz vs NZ.
simple economics boys
- You get what you pay for.